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  • #16
    if DanS doesn't know, I say it doesn't exist!
    Monkey!!!

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    • #17


      Japher, it means we just need to bring out the Big Guns. Where's Roland Stenish when you need 'em?

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      • #18
        Nah, I'm no professional. Roland isn't either.

        Sten would probably know.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #19
          EP = Estimated Profits?
          That sounds most right so far, as that is usually what analysts valuate stocks off of...
          Monkey!!!

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          • #20
            Profits divided by Free Cash Flow? I don't know that valuation method.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #21
              I would have thought Earnings Power was more likely, but doesn't feel right.
              One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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              • #22
                Profits divided by Free Cash Flow? I don't know that valuation method
                Well not the Free Cash Flow thing.

                I also hear them take next years earnings and multiply it by the PE to get what the current stock price.

                This EP/FCF seems more like a Price/Book type thing, removing all debts from a similar evaluation method.
                Monkey!!!

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                • #23
                  Yell Group laid on $2 billion in debt to fund this purchase. Perhaps that's why they're popping out Enron-esque financial ratios on an unwary public.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by DanS
                    Profits divided by Free Cash Flow? I don't know that valuation method.
                    No, but I'm wondering if the / is a grammatic symbol instead of mathematical, like "and/or"
                    When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."

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                    • #25
                      Re: Finance Gurus - help me decode this line from a news report...

                      I thought you were a finance guru.

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                      • #26
                        This has even stumped the Great Minds* of Apolyton, Kuci!

                        * Well, "mind." And by that I mean MtG.

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                          • #28
                            GIGO.
                            One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                            • #29
                              Probably, Dauphin.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Dauphin
                                GIGO.
                                Excuses. Excuses.

                                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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